Lunchbox Ideas Part 3

Calzone & Chipsmore

Recipe:
Calzone - recipe in my blog post here
Honey bun - storebought

Make-ahead tips:
Weekends - Prepare calzone, par-bake and freeze.
On the day - Finish baking in the oven.

Simple Fried Rice, Chicken Meatball & Honey Malted Cookies

Recipe:
Chicken meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Honey malted cookies - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekends - Prepare meatballs then freeze and bake the cookies.
On the day -  Cooked fried rice and fry meatballs.

Hotdog bun & Honey Malted Cookies

Recipe:
Honey malted cookies - recipe in my blog post here
Hotdog bun - storebought

Make-ahead tips:

Weekends - Bake the cookies.

Hotdog Roll and Sirap Bandung

Recipe:
Hotdog - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare hotdog and freeze.
The night before - Cook hotdog and prepare hotdog roll. And make sirap bandung and store in the fridge to cool.
On the day - Reheat hotdog roll in the microwave.

Breaded Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Meatballs and Brown sauce (for dippping)

Recipe:
Meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Brown sauce - Ikea instant brown sauce

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare meatball and freeze.
The night before - Assemble sandwich --> put a slice of cheese in between 2 slices of bread. Coat with eggs then breadcrumbs and put in fridge.
On the day - Pan fry sandwich and cook meatball.

Marinara Meatballs, Broccoli Nuggets & Mini Pecan Pie

Recipe:
Meatball - recipe in my blog post here
Broccoli Nugget - recipe in my blog post here
Mini Pecan Pie - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare meatball and freeze. Prepare broccoli nuggets (bake and store in fridge). Bake mini pecan pies (this was our dessert for that weekend).
The night before - Cook Marinara meatball (this was our dinner that night so I save some for Syafi's lunchbox).
On the day - Reheat broccoli nuggets in oven. Heat marinara meatball then put in a roll with cheese. Heat mini pecan pies.

Chicken Parmigiana & Cheese Breadstix

Recipe:
Chicken Parmigiana - Coat chicken with 1) flour, 2) eggs and 3) breadcrumbs. Pan fried until chicken half cookes and outer layer golden brown. Layer chicken in a oven dish, Spread pasta sauce/tomato puree on top of the chicken and sprinkles with Cheddar and parmesan cheese on top. Bake until cheese melted and chicken completely cooked.

Breadstix - using pizza dough from my blog post here
Twist the dough and sprinkles with cheese, salt and garlic powder on top.

Honey mustard sauce - recipe from food.com

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare breadstix and freeze (par-bake).
The night before - Cook Chicken parmigiana (this was our dinner meal and I cooked extra for our lunchboxes for the next day.
On the day - Reheat chicken and bake breadstix.

Pepperoni Cheese Waffled Sandwich & Choc Chip Cookies

Recipe:
Waffled Sandwich - Layer pepperoni and cheese in between 2 slices of bread. Then heat in waffle maker.
Choc Chip cookies - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Prepare sandwich.
On the day - Heat sandwich in waffle maker.

Nuggets & Baked Donut

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here 
Honey mustard sauce - recipe from food.com
Baked donut - recipe from Baker Bettie

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
The night before - Bake donuts. Make ribena drinks and put in fridge to cool.
On the day - Fry nuggets.

Breakfast Streaky Beef Tortilla Pizza & Sirap Bandung

Recipe:
Pizza base using Tortilla. Topping - cheese, breakfast streaky beef and mayo.

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Layer topping on top of tortilla and refrigerate. Make sirap bandung, store in fridge to cool.
On the day - Bake tortilla pizza.

Roti Canai, Paratha & Homemade Dhal

Recipe:
Dhal - using recipe from the back of Baba's dhal powder package.
Roti canai & Paratha - instant frozen Kawan's brand.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked dhal and freeze separate small container (whenever want to use it, just take out the container and reheat).
On the day - Cook frozen roti canai.

Beef Pizza Bread

Recipe:
Pizza Bread - cooked minced beef with finely chopped onion + cumin powder + curry powder + tomato puree + shredded carrot + salt & pepper. Spread on bread and sprinkles with mozarella cheese. Then bake until cheese melted.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked minced beef with spices (I normally cooked a large batch of minced beef during weekends in advance and then keep in separate small container and freeze (This can be used for bolognese pasta, lasagna filling, pizza topping, sandwich filling, roti john filling etc). 
On the day - Spread topping on bread and bake until cheese melted.

Chicken Burger & Fries

Recipe:
Chicken patty - recipe in my blog post here

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare chicken patty and freeze.
On the day - Cook burger (this can be done the night before then just reheat in the morning) and fries.

Chocolate Muffin, Chicken Meatloaf and Cheese Sandwich & Cauliflower Breadstix

Recipe:
Cauliflower Breadstix - recipe from Super Healthy Kids
Skinny Double Chocolate muffins - recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction

Make-ahead tips:
The day before - Bake muffins and Cauliflower Breadstix.
On the day - Prepare sandwich and reheat muffins and Cauliflower Breadstix.

Chocolate Donut & Nuggets

Recipe:
Nuggets - recipe in my blog post here
Donut - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare nuggets and freeze.
On the day - Fry nugget.

Mister Donut & Curry puff

Chicken curry puff - storebought frozen.
Donut - storebought.

Make-ahead tips:
On the day - Fry curry puff.

Sugar Donut & Breaded Hotdog Donut

Recipe:
Donut - recipe in my blog post here
Hotdog donut make with the same donut dough then coat the shaped donut in breadcrumbs.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Prepare donut, (half-fried) and freeze.
On the day - Fry donut.

Choc Chip Pancake & Curry Puff

Recipe:
Pancake - recipe from Martha Stewart website
Curry puff - storebought frozen

Make-ahead tips:
The night before - Prepare pancake batter and store in fridge.
On the day - Cook pancake and fry curry puffs.

Roti Canai & Dhal

Recipe:
Dhal - using recipe from the back of Baba's dhal powder package.
Roti canai - instant frozen Kawan's brand.

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked dhal and freeze separate small container (whenever want to use it, just take out the container and reheat).
On the day - Cook frozen roti canai.

Beef Tortilla Pizza & Choc Chip Cookies

Recipe:
Tortilla pizza topping - spiced minced beef & mozarella. 

Make-ahead tips:
Weekend - Cooked minced beef with spices (I normally cooked a large batch of minced beef during weekends in advance and then keep in separate small container and freeze (This can be used for bolognese pasta, lasagna filling, pizza topping, sandwich filling, roti john filling etc). 

On the day - Spread topping on tortilla and bake until cheese melted.